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FERDINAND MARCOS Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody ...
FERDINAND MARCOS There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them...
FERDINAND MARCOS Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone...
FERDINAND MARCOS I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my hon...
FERDINAND MARCOS Once a champion, always a champion.
FERDINAND MARCOS A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
FERDINAND FOCH No study is possible on the battlefield.
FERDINAND FOCH The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
FERDINAND FOCH In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
FERDINAND FOCH It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
FERDINAND FOCH My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
FERDINAND FOCH A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
FERDINAND BUISSON We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warf...
FERDINAND BUISSON From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.
FERDINAND BUISSON My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.
FERDINAND FOCH The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on t...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN "The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on ...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the mo...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
FERDINAND FOCH None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
FERDINAND FOCH These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Fil...
FERDINAND MARCOS My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in ...
FERDINAND MARCOS I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
FERDINAND PORSCHE Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little lo...
FERDINAND MARCOS Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any r...
FERDINAND PORSCHE My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignit...
FERDINAND MARCOS History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then writ...
FERDINAND MARCOS We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
FERDINAND MOUNT I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.
FERDINAND PORSCHE The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms conson...
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